Daily Post 1557 PROJECT HAS A LIFE! Any important project has a life of its own. So as a precursor to it, it has a purpose. That purpose is independent of the protagonists who make it happen. The project would live way beyond the life of the protagonists and its operations and even beyond the […]
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Daily Post 1556 BALKANISATION OF TECHNOLOGY The success stories of all the IT behemoths have for long been known to the world. It has been stories of bringing technologies together, consolidating processes and creating systems out of it. All these ended up in products. These products have been on of its kind; from Mac to
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Daily Post 1554 THE TEAM The role of the team in organisational success is an well accepted across the world. Whether it was the two member founding team later with Eric Schmidt and others which created the Google wonder to the ISRO team which is consistently doing wonders, way beyond what anyone could have imagined.
Daily Post 1552 THE PROCESSES Modern day existence is marked by processes in every field of life. Processes as it is expected does the magic. Once the issue, problem, requisition, clarification, project or bill goes through the process, it is supposed to be clearing it through the most objective and stringent checks. The decision, order,
Daily Post 1547 PHOTO-OPS, OPTICS, SYMBOLISM, GESTURES et al Be the change you want to see is what Mahatma Gandhi said and did all his life. Lead from the front is the general refrain in the forces. And everywhere else we are told to be the role model and see the change. These are not
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Daily Post 1546 EXECUTIVE = EFFECTIVE CONTROL It’s time we gave thought to the fact as to why executive exists and whether its role is more than being a bystander and at times being able to deliver much less than what has been invested in it. Undeniably, the display of power and tantrums would be
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Daily Post 1545 THE BUCK STOPS NOWHERE! We are all familiar with the popular refrain, the buck stops here. That would be the case in other parts of the world but as it stands today, in India the buck stops nowhere. Some don’t even know what the buck is and what can be done with
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Daily Post 1532 CRYING FOR EXPERTISE Look at the world around and you would find find one conspicuous element missing in our ecosystem – expertise. We find people groping in the dark for the most complex to the simplest of the tasks, activities, processes or projects. It has become a challenge to find the right
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Daily Post 1531 MAINSTREAM IRRELEVANCE Seven decades is not a long time in the history of a nation. Might be its sufficient enough time to put systems in place and make it robust. It can be good enough time to be clear about, as to where we are heading. Certainly, it is enough time to
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Daily Post 1530 PUBLIC DOMAIN INTEROPERABILITY Interoperability remains a technical and business issue in the IT world. Seamless interoperability is a mirage that we keep on chasing, some don’t even have the interest to make it happen, if it is outside their area of vested interest. This is the technical public domain, the technologies, products
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Daily Post 1527 WORK IN PEACE With the advent of the whole new concept of multitasking and then the onset of social media, work in peace has got thrown out of the window. Earlier, we heard of stories of what successful men did with their time and were able to create skills, documents, blueprint of
